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Real estate photos are notoriously awful for understanding relative size and layout of everything. I do wonder if that's intentional so you reach out to a Realt
by DavidPeiffer 3y ago
Real estate photos are notoriously awful for understanding relative size and layout of everything. I do wonder if that's intentional so you reach out to a Realtor® to view the property?
Garages tend to be the box storage location for things that aren't used for staging, which is probably why they aren't in photos.
Matterport offers 3d virtual tours which I've found to be awesome when searching for property. More than once it saved us driving across town because it was easy to tell the layout wasn't what we'd want. One regional For Sale by Owner group has the 3d tour as part of their basic package, which always made me lean towards viewing those when looking online, though I've never seen a garage.
- ghaff 3y agoWhen I was house shopping a very long time ago, the amount of time I wasted driving to look at properties and not even stopping was just staggering.
- DavidPeiffer 3y agoBetween Google Street view and satellite photos and 3d virtual tours, I would probably be 90% confident that a house layout would work for us. Maybe 15% from listing photos that are often taken with a lens that makes rooms look bigger than they are.
- ghaff 3y agoMy house hunting wasn't quite pre-Web but it was before Google Streetview/Google Maps/etc. so it was pretty just the listing service printout and you hit deal-breakers a significant majority of the time pretty quickly as soon as you drove there.